New Study Shows That Pain Costs Billions of Dollars a Year in U.S.

By Salynn Boyles WebMD Health News – June 29, 2011, Reviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD

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An IOM committee commissioned by Congress concluded that pain is not optimally managed in the U.S. and that effective treatment of chronic pain will require a coordinated national effort to transform how the public, policy makers, and health care providers view the condition.

"We see that for many patients chronic pain becomes a disease in its own right," committee chair Phillip Pizzo, MD, of Stanford University School of Medicine, said at a Wednesday news briefing. "We need to address this in a more comprehensive and interdisciplinary way and include prevention as a very important goal."

Committee member Sean Mackey, MD, PhD, noted that about a third of the population is affected by chronic pain — more people than are affected by heart disease, diabetes, and cancer combined — yet very little is spent on research to find better ways to manage pain.
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CLICK HERE for IoM site on chronic pain

• List of committee members
• Unable to find the 1000+ comments that were supposed to be there

Some items in the report

VitaminDWiki notices that the majority of the types of pain are reduced by adding vitamin D

would be nice to add links to the areas on the wiki - but do not have time

Common sources of acute pain - pg 42

• infectious diseases (e.g., food poisoning with related gastrointestinal manifestations),
• wound infections,
• untreated dental conditions,
• burns,
• trauma (broken bones, lacerations and other wounds),
• appendicitis,
• surgery,
• medical procedures, and
• childbirth.

Common sources of chronic pain - pg 42

• migraine and other serious headaches,
• arthritis and other joint pain,
• fibromyalgia,
• irritable bowel syndrome, x chronic interstitial cystitis,
• trauma or postsurgical pain,
• low back pain,
• other musculoskeletal disorders,
• temporomandibular joint disorder,
• shingles,
• sickle cell disease,
• heart disease (angina),
• cancer,
• stroke, and
• diabetes.

The 300+ page report which is attached to the bottom of this page does not once contain the word VITAMIN

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See also VitaminDWiki

• Many kinds of pain relieved by vitamin D VitaminDWIki Blog Feb 2012
• All items in Chronic Pain and Vitamin D 167 items
• All items in category Back pain and Vitamin D 44 items
• Vitamin D relieves pain – 2008 2010 good article
• Overview: Fibromyalgia or Chronic Fatigue and vitamin D
• Vitamin D and chronic widespread pain
• Tenuous link between vitamin D and chronic pain - April 2009
• Back pain reduced for 95 percent of those who took vitamin D - 2003 file, not web page
  "only" 95% of the people with back pain were helped with vitamin D 5,000 IU or 10,000 IU daily
• More likely to have Chronic Widespread Pain when have less than 15 ng – May 2010
• Leg pain 7X more prevalent when vitamin D lower than 20 ng – Oct 2010
• Patients like me survey found vitamin D to be number one supplement - across ALL problems
• Low vitamin D associated with chronic widespread pain for women
• More Arab leg pain when less than 20 ng of vitamin D – Aug 2010
• Vitamin D reduces pain – such as from Menstral Cramps – Feb 2012
• Blacks had lower vitamin D and more quantifiable pain than whites with knee osteoarthritis – Nov 2012
• Global Burden of Disease - Dec 2012